We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.